BILL GATES: Well, thank you and good morning. Happy Valentine's Day. (Laughter.) I'm really glad to be here at RSA. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney. (Laughter, applause.) I'm feeling very safe right now.

Well, I've had a chance to keynote this conference a number of times, and talk about some of the things Microsoft is doing. I want to do that this year, but first I want to start off talking about the vision of how we see the industry coming together and really delivering the broad trustworthy environment that we all need for computing.

Why is this important? Well, the move towards digital approaches in everything we do is accelerating. Whether it's medical records, tax records, buying and selling, scientific data, important communications, including national security; all of these things more and more are using the Internet.

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